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Post-Election Voices On the night before his death, Martin Luther King mesmerized a Memphis congregation with an address in which he said, "I may not get [to the mountaintop] with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." On election night we watched as Americans from Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, to California voted for a President based not on the color of his skin but on the content of his character. Now we know what Dr. King saw from the mountaintop. We have overcome. Today. Alan...
...night before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. mesmerized a Memphis, Tenn., congregation with an address in which he said, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land" [Nov. 17]. On election night we watched as Americans from Virginia, home of the capital of the Confederacy, to California voted for a President not on the basis of the color of his skin but on the content of his character. Now we know what King saw from the mountaintop. We have overcome. Alan...
...Instead of intellectual exploration,” he said then, “students will spend four years playing intellectual hop-scotch—jumping from square to square, trying to land on the right courses at just the right times.” —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
...biggest potential land mine in the Obama coalition isn't the culture war or foreign policy; it's nationalism. On a range of issues, from global warming to immigration to trade to torture, college-educated liberals want to integrate more deeply America's economy, society and values with the rest of the world's. They want to make it easier for people and goods to legally cross America's borders, and they want global rules that govern how much America can pollute the atmosphere and how it conducts the war on terrorism. They believe that ceding some sovereignty is essential...
...Cubbies - with cosmopolitan shopping and restaurants on Michigan Avenue. Its graceful mix of cutting-edge, environmentally conscious modern architecture and classic parks and buildings has actually given it a reputation as a model of a 21st-century metropolis, which the city is hoping to use to help land the 2016 Summer Olympics...